Vibrator instrument.



PATENTED 0011. 11, 1904;

C. OWENS.

VIBRATOR INSTRUMENT.

APPLIOATION FILED SEPT. a, 1903.

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N0 MODEL.

PATENTED OUT. 11, 1904.

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VIBRATOR INSTRUMENT.

APl LIOATION FILED SEPT. 8. 1903.

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Patented October 11, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE. 7

CHARLES OWENS, OF OHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE.

VIBRATOR INSTRUMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 772,252, dated October 11, 1904.

Application filed September 8, 1903. Serial No. 172,407. (No model.)

To all whom it ntay concern.-

.Be it known that I, OHARLEs OWENS, acitizen of the United States, residing at Chattanooga, Tennessee, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vibrator Instruments, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in movement-cure apparatus, and relates more particularly to the means whereby the instrument is suspended for free adjustment in all directions and to means whereby the general position of the instrument may be changed from a vertical to a horizontal position or the reverse.

The apparatus herein described is for the same general purpose as that disclosed in Letters Patent of the United States granted to me March 3, 1903, No. 721,737, and like the said apparatus it includes a tool adapted to contact with the affected part of the body with means for driving the said tool.

The invention consists in the features and combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the invention with the parts immediately connected with the implement in the vertical position. Fig. 2 is a similar View with the said parts in a horizontal position. Fig. 3 is a View of a modification. Fig. 4 is a detail view showing the motor-casing and vibrator-head with the tool associated therewith.

In the drawings, 1 represents a motor-head of any suitable construction which may contain driving mechanism to be operated electrically or in any other way. This motorhead is connected with a vibrator-head 1, having a downwardly-extending arm 1", to which is fulcrumed the vibrator-arm 1 carrying the vibrator implementat its lower end. The vibrator-head has a handle a connected therewith by which the apparatus may be controlled and adjusted to the body as desired.

The motor-head 1 has upon its upper side, as shown in Fig. 1, a ring 3 attached thereto by screws 4 I, passing through a base-plate which carries the said ring into the motorhead. To this ring the suspension-cord 5 is attached, the said cord extending up over pulley 6", carried by an arm 7, attached in any suitable Way to the wall or ceiling-as, for instance, by screws 8 8. The cord has at the end opposite to that upon which the motorhead is a counterbalance 11.

On one side of the motor-head I arrange a hook or projection 2, and when it is desired to change the general position of the apparatus from that shown in Fig. 1, in which the vibrator-arm extends vertically to that shown in Fig. 2, in which the vibrator-arm extends horizontally, the intermediate portion of the cord or suspending means is placed beneath the hook,which then becomes the point of suspension, as shown in Fig. 2. By this arrangement it will be noticed that the cord or chain remains attached to the ring 3 and by simply catching the intermediate portion of said cord or chain under the hook the position of the apparatus may be at once changed from that shown in Fig. 1 to that shown in Fig. 2, and in both positions freedom of movement of the instrument is permitted in all directions.

In Fig. 3 the apparatus is shown suspended from a traveling carrier 10 by the cord pass ing over the pulley 11 on said carrier, a counterweight being used in this form also. The track for the carrier is held to the ceiling by suitable hangers 12.

I claim as my invention 1. In combination with an apparatus carrying a tool of the class described, suspending means of aflexible character connected thereto and means on the apparatus for detachably engaging an intermediate part of the said flexible suspending means to change the point of suspension, substantially as described.

2- In combination with an apparatus carrying a tool of the class described, a flexible suspending means connected thereto at one point and a projection or hook on the said apparatus for detachably engaging the flexible suspending means at anintermediate pointthereof for changing the point of suspension on the said apparatus, substantially as described.

3. In a movement-cure apparatus, a motorhead, an instrument carried by said head, a

traveling carrier, a pulley thereon, a cord for suspending the head passing over the said pulley and a counterweight for the end of the said cord, substantially as described.

5 4:. In combination in an apparatus of the class described, a motor-support, a tooldriven by the motor carried by the support and extending from the support, afiexible suspending means connected with the support at one IO point and a hook on the support for engaging the intermediate part of the flexible suspending means to change the direction of the tool, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

CHARLES OWENS.

Witnesses:

L. C. SHEPHERD, I. V. HARTMAN. 

